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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Scumbria who wrote (143567)5/8/2001 9:02:58 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I agree that common decency and politeness should be the first rule of communication. I do my best to avoid rudeness, and when I fail I try to apologize. Please inform me if I ever do otherwise.

I'm not so sure you don't relish and invite it, though. You stimulate a lot of reactions that are pretty predictable, given the topic of this thread.

I don't think intolerance is an exclusive purview of the right. I once belonged to a creative writing group that was populated by some pretty liberal souls. One lady was even an employee of the Sierra Club -- she was a terrible writer, but we met in her apartment. Another lady held environmentalist views and read a well written piece of hers that had a lot of factual errors in it. The following week I read an existing piece of mine to present issues the way I saw them. I thought I was going to be physically ejected from the meeting. After some discussion, I was allowed to complete my piece, but I was so rattled my voice quavered. I never went back.

If you are interested, you can read that piece in one hundred years. It's sealed in the time capsule at the Juneau Federal Building and won't be opened until 2094. That is an appropriate time period. Forestry is a very long term enterprise--one that outlives five generations of professional foresters before being fulfilled.
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